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salted fish, bear-skins, trained horses, horse-tails, lacker, wax, wooden
bowls, rock-crystal, amber, red earth ; the best horses in Japan are from the
district of Nanbu, where are extensive pastures ;
the productions of Jeso, in
particular, are as follows : konbu, or sea-cabbage, birds of prey for hawk-
ing, whales and other sea-fish, skins of otters, beavers, seals, and stags, cas-
toreum, gold, silver, adamantine spar. 8. Dewa (twelve districts) ; cities,
Yone-sawa, Yama-gata, Onewe-no-yama, Sinsio, Sionay, Akita ; productions,
sea-cabbage, safflower, a very large kind of hemp, wax, lacker, oiled
paper, madder, tin, lead, silver, sulphur, deer-skins, horses.
IV. Fookoorokudo, or way of the^northern districts, comprehends seven
provinces :
1. Wakasa (three districts); capital, Kobama ; productions, white rice
pionies, pulp of lotus-flowers, perfume-bags, cloths, mosses, paper, saki , pen
cils, stones for grinding ink, black stones for draft or chess boards, lime,
many kinds of fish. 2. Yetsisen (twelve districts); towns, Fookie, Foo-
cheu, Maruoka, Ono, Sabafe, Katsu-yama ; productions, lead,
different sorts
of paper, cloths, silk fabrics, cotton goods, hats woven from the filaments
of herbs, grindstones, oil extracted from the seeds of the dryandra cordata,
much fish. 3. Yetsiu (four districts); capital, Toyama ; productions, salt-
petre, yellow lotus, lead, cotton cloths, taffetas, fish. 4. Yetsingo (seven
districts) ; cities, Takata, Naga-oka, Simbota, Mura-kami, Itsumo-saki, Moramats
; productions, lead, lacker, wax, white mustard, various cotton fabrics,
white hares, sturgeons and other fish, deal and larch wood. 5. Kaga (four
districts); cities, Kanazawa ,(with the celebrated Buddhic temple Dai'siu-si),
Komats ; productions, paper, skins for drums, small thread, wine of mother-
wort, yellow lotus, sulphur, silk, satins. 6. Noto (four districts) ; this province
has no cities ; the most considerable towns are Soos-no-misaki, Kawa-
siri, Nanao ; productions, sea-fish, divers kinds of mosses, colored stones
washed up by the sea. 7. Sado (three districts); the capital of this isle is
Koki ; productions, gold, silver, yellow lotus, deal and larch-wood.
V. Sanindo, or way of the northern sides of the mountains, contains eight
provinces :
1. Tango (five districts) ; cities, Miyazu, Tanabeh ; productions, hemp,
baskets, silk, taffetas, fish and shell-fish, umbrellas, iron, timber for build-
ing. 2. Tonba (six districts) ; cities, Kame-yama, Sasa-yama, Fooktsiyama
; productions, China-root, wax, quinces, chestnuts, tobacco, cloths,
tea, topazes, sheaths for knives and sabres. 3. Tasima (six districts); cities,
Idzusi or Daisi, Toyo-oka ; productions, small ginseng, pionies, yellow lotus,
medicinal and edible herbs, cotton, hawks for hunting, pepper, silver, grind-
stones. 4. Inaba (seven districts) ; capital, Totstori ; productions, vege-
table wax, paper, melons, dried fish, ginger. 5. Foki (six districts); capital,
Yonego ; productions, iron, steel, bear's-gall, a medicine greatly in
repute among the Japanese, pans to fry fish. 6. Idzumo (ten districts);
capital, Matsugeh ; productions, iron, steel, sabres, fish, shell-fish, melons,
cloths. 7. Iwami (six districts); cities, Tsoowano, Famada ; productions,
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